>I think it's almost there, all the field names are brought in but it only imports the first column and all the rest are blank. The syntax from the help states:
>APPEND FROM FileName | ?
> [FIELDS FieldList]
> [FOR lExpression]
> [[TYPE] [DELIMITED [WITH Delimiter | WITH BLANK | WITH TAB
> | WITH CHARACTER Delimiter]
> | DIF | FW2 | MOD | PDOX | RPD | SDF | SYLK
> | WK1 | WK3 | WKS | WR1 | WRK | CVS
> | XLS | XL5 [SHEET cSheetName] | XL8 [SHEET cSheetName]]]
>so I tried APPEND FROM table.dat FIELDS all TYPE DELIMITED WITH '|'
>but the variable 'All' is not found. The table has 51 fields so how do I get it to bring in all of them?
>Thanks!
>Max
>
>>you need to look a little harder at the command... read the TYPE options >and the DELIMITED options...
>
>>essentially APPEND FROM x.dat DELIMITED WITH '|'
>
>>When I try that it gives an error message stating "Not a table". I've tried "APPEND FROM table.txt" and "APPEND FROM table.dat" but with the same result. What else can I try?
>>Thanks!
>>Max
>>
>>>Take a look at APPEND FROM command. It allows to directly import text files >of different format into predefined cursor/table.

Do you have field names as the first line of data in this file? Then try this:

APPEND FROM yourfile.dat TYPE CSV

Did you also create a table with your 51 fields (appropriately sized) in it first?